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CHAPBOOK–A SMALL REVIEW

In the mail today I received my official copy of the League of Canadian PoetsBoomerang: Re/vers/ed Poems. It looks great. Kudos to John Oughton for editing and producing the chapbook, kudos to Steve McCabe for his wonderful artwork, and, of course, kudos to everyone who contributed to the magazine.

I started reading from the back first–ok, I’ll admit some of the reasoning there is I’m third from last– but I also thought it appropriate, considering these are poems going backwards. And forwards. Some are palindromes, some reverse stanza’s, some reversed lines, and like what kicked it off, a poem by M.E. Csamer reversed by Harold Rhenisch, some are completely different poems, in reverse.

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“Take warning from all those times when on meeting again, we feel ashamed because we realize we had accepted the false simplification which absence permits, its obliteration of all those characteristics which, when we meet face to face, force themselves upon even the blindest. Where human beings are concerned, the statement ‘nothing is true’ is true—at a distance—and the converse is also true—at the moment of confrontation” --Dag Hammarskjold.